Museum - Harrington Historical Society in Harrington, Delaware

WE NEED YOUR HELP! We have begun our Wreaths Across America fundraising efforts. We are hoping to cover seven cemeteries this year! They are: Hollywood Cemetery, Williamsville Cemetery, Griffiths Chapel Cemetery, Hopkins Cemetery, Mt Olive Cemetery, Cow Marsh Baptist Cemetery, and Barratts Chapel Cemetery. In total close to 2000 plus of our brave men and women who served our country are interred in these cemeteries. And we want to have 100% coverage to honor or men and women!... So please sponsor a wreath today!!! There are many ways you can sponsor a wreath. 1. Visit www.ghhsociety.org and follow the links to Wreaths Across America 2. Go to the Wreaths Across America Website using the following link: https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/159284/Overview/ then scroll down to chose the cemetery you wish to support. We also need volunteers to place the wreaths! Wreath Day is Saturday, Dec 19, 2020 at 12pm. You ca sign up on these same site to volunteer to place the wreaths. Thank you for your support!

Checkout the Facebook page for our newest sponsorship group for Wreaths Across America! The Battlin Betties are a group of woman whose use the pinup style of the 1940s to support our veterans and the mental health of our service men and women of today! Be sure to support them!

Sport your WAA at our wreath event!

Recently created "Lower Delmarva Roots" a local genealogy & history FB Group, is initiating a Winter Online Speaker Series. Doug Poore, a Harrington DE native, ...who recently authored a pictorial history of the Railroads of Delmarva, will be our inaugural speaker, this Sunday Oct 18th. Click on link to request membership to the group, which will entitle you to view the upcoming lectures. We also encourage members to participate within our group. Thanks! www.facebook.com/groups/LowerDelmarvaRoots/

Our next book!!!! Due for release Jan 28, 2021 but you can pre-order for a Christmas gift!!! Arcadia Publishing will have it online

WE NEED MORE WREATHS!!! As of today we are almost 2000 wreaths short of our goal. Please help us remember our veterans. Each of them served America, sacrificed for our freedoms. Some gave the ultimate sacrifice, their lives. We cannot forget them! Don't delay! Sponsorship cuts off on November 30, 2020. Click on to sponsor your wreath today!!!! Its just $15.00 for a gift of a wreath! https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/159284/Overview/

HURRAH!

We are in need of volunteers to help clean up the cemetery. The dates are November 15th, 21st and 22nd, beginning at 9am each day. Please bring battery powered weed eaters, blowers and brooms. We hope to see you all there! Once we finish Hollywood we will proceed to Hopkins Cemetery, then Mount Olive. All hands can help! Check back for locations as we change but again we will start at Hollywood! See you there!

They fought for us no matter what. We will honor them, no matter what. #RememberHonorTeach

We will be there! The three books that have been written will be for sale, and the author on hand to sign them for you! We will also have Wreath Across America wreath sponsorship forms. We can't wait to see you! Make sure you stop and say hi!

Be sure to like our page. We are only 63 likes away from 2000! Help us reach our goal!

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